Roger Ward Babson
(1875-1967)
Died aged 91
Wikidata WikipediaRoger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas. Babson was born to Nathaniel Babson and his wife Ellen Stearns as part of the 10th generation of Babsons to live in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Roger attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for investment firms before founding Babson's Statistical Organization (1904), which analyzed stocks and business reports; it continues today as Babson-United, Inc. On March 29, 1900, Babson married his first wife, Grace Margaret Knight, who died in 1956. In 1957, he married Nona M. Dougherty, who died in 1963. Babson died in 1967.
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Here at New Boston, N.H. Roger W. Babson and his associates prioneered in active research for anti-gravity and a partial gravity insulator 1959
Meetinghouse Hill Road, New Boston, NH, United States where they pioneered in active research for anti-gravity and a partial gravity insulator